TITULO: British Poetry since 1945
EDITOR: Edward Lucie-Smith
EDITORIAL: Penguin Books
AÑO: 1973
LUGAR: Inglaterra
CONTENIDO:
Acknowledgements 17
Introduction 27
I. Sources
EDWIN MUIR
The Combat 37
HUGH MACDIARMID (C. M. GRIEVE)
In the Fall 40
Bagpipe Music 44
Glasgow 1960 45
ROBERT GRAVES
Counting the Beats 46
The Straw 47
The Face in the Mirror 48
DAVID JONES
A, a, a, Domine Deus 49
The Hunt 50
BASIL BUNTING
The Spoils 57
JOHN BETJEMAN
Indoor Games Near Newbury 69
Devonshire Street W.I 71
N. W. 5 & N. 6 72
LOUIS MACNFICE
The Wiper 73
The Truisms 75
The Taxis 75
After the Crash 76
The Habits 76
DYLAN THOMAS
Over Sir John’s Hill 78
DAVID GASCOYNE
Elegiac Improvisation on the Death of Paul Eluard 81
2. Post-War
VERNON WATKINS
A Man With a Field 87
Great Nights Returning 88
The Razor Shell 89
LAWRENCE DURRELL
A Portrait of Theodora 90
Sarajevo 91
Bitter Lemons 92
GEORGE BARKER
On a Friend’s Escape from Drowning off the Norfolk Coast 94
Roman Poem III 95
THOMAS BLACKBURN
En Route 97
JOHN HEATH-STUBBS
The Last Watch of Empire 100
A Charm Against the Toothache 101
W. S. GRAHAM
Malcolm Mooney’s Land 103
BERNARD SPENCER
Night-Time: Starting to Write 108
Properties of Snow 109
ROY FULLER
Poem Out of Character 110
From Meredithian Sonnets: II, IX, XIII 112
STEVIE SMITH
Not Waving but Drowning 114
Tenuous and Precarious 115
Emily Writes Such a Good Letter 116
CHARLES CAUSLEY
My Friend Maloney 118
R. S. THOMAS
The Welsh Hill Cuntry 120
The Mixen 121
The Country Clergy 121
Evans 122
PATRICIA BEER
Finis 123
A Dream of Hanging 124
3. The Movement
PHILIP LARKIN
Mr Bleaney 127
The Whitsun Weddings 128
Going 131
Days 131
DONALD DAVIE
Housekeeping 133
Green River 134
New York in August 135
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
Night Garden of the Asylum 136
One Flesh 137
D. J. ENRIGHT
In Memoriam 138
KINGSLEY AMIS
The Last War 140
Souvenirs 141
A Point of Logic 142
THOM GUNN
The Annihilation of Nothing 143
Considering the Snail 144
My Sad Captains 145
Touch 146
4. Expressionists
FRANCIS PERRY
Hvalsey 151
Vadstena 153
TED HUGHES
Wodwo 155
Gog 156
Pibroch 159
Theology 160
Fifth Bedtime Story 161
SYLVIA PLATH
Balckberrying 163
Lady Lazarus 164
Daddy 168
A. ALVAREZ
Lost 171
Back 172
Mourning and Melancholia 172
JON SILKIN
Caring for Animals 174
Dandelion 175
A Bluebell 176
A Daisy 176
5. The Group
PHILIP HOBSDAUM
A Secret Sharer 181
Can I Fly Too? 182
Ocarina 182
MARTIN BELL
The Enormous Comics 184
Letter to a Friend 185
PETER PORTER
Death in the Pergola Tea-Rooms 188
Madame de Merteuil on “The Loss of an Eye” 190
The Great Poet Comes Here in Winter 191
PETER REDGROVE
The House in the Acorn 193
The Hall-Scissors 194
Young Women with the Hair of Witches and No Modesty 195
The Moon Disposes 196
GEORGE MACBETH
Owl 198
The Shell 200
The Bamboo Nightingale 201
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
Looking a Drawing 208
Silence 209
The Bruise 209
Night Rain 210
DAVID WEVILL
My Father Sleeps 211
Groundhog 212
Winter Homecoming 213
6. Influences from Abroad
MICHAEL HAMBURGER
Travelling 217
The Jackdaws 220
CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON
Climbing a Pebble 221
Cabal of Cat and Mouse 222
Lenau’s Dream 223
CHARLES TOMLINSON
Tramontana at Lerici 225
The Snow Fences 226
The Fox 227
A Given Grace 228
MATTHEW MEAD
Identities II 230
Translator to Translated 231
GAEL TURNBULL
Homage to Jean Follain 233
George Fox, From His Journals 234
ROY FISHER
The Hospital in Winter 236
Interior I 237
GEOFFREY HILL
In Piam Memoriam 240
To the (Supposed ) Patron 241
Ovid in the Third Reich 241
KAREN GERSHON
I Was Not There 242
In the Jewish Cemetery 243
ROSEMARY TONES
The Sofas, Fogs and Cinemas 245
NATHANIEL TARN
Last of the Chiefs 248
Markings 249
PETER LEVI, S. J.
Monologue spoken by the Pet Canary of Pope Pius XII 251
“To speak about the soul” 252
ANSELM HOLLO
First Ode for a Very Young Lady 254
7. Post-Movement
ANTHONY THWAITE
Mr Cooper 259
Butterflies in the Desert 261
Letters of Synesius: VI 261
ALAN BROWNJOHN
Office Party 263
The Space 265
For a Journey 266
TONY CONNOR
A Child Half-Asleep 267
From “Twelve Secret Poems”; III, VI 268
JON STALLWORTHY
The Almond Tree 270
JOHN FULLER
The Cook’s Lesson 275
DOM MORAES
Craxton 277
PETER DALE
Not Drinking Water 280
Thrush 281
BRIAN JONES
Husband to Wife: Party-Going 283
Sunday Outing 284
Runner 284
D. M. THOMAS
Missionary 286
BARRY COLE
The Domestic World in Winter 290
Reported Missing 291
MILES BURROWS
Minipoet 292
8. Dissenters
CHRISTOPHER LOGUE
From Book XXI of Homer’s Iliad 295
ADRIAN MITCHELL
Nostalgia – Now Threepence Off 303
To Whom It May Concern 305
9. Scotland
ROBERT GARLOCH
I’m Neutral 309
In Princes Street Gairdens 310
NORMAN MACAIG
Nude in a Fountain 311
Fetching Cows 312
Interruption to a Journey 313
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
Ikey on the People of Helya 314
The Hawk 316
EDWIN MORGAN
From the Domain of Arnheim 317
Opening the Cage 319
Pomander 320
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
Orkney Lyrics 322
Stones for Gardens 323
Green Waters 324
IAIN CRICHTON SMITH
Old Woman 325
The Departing Island 326
Farewell 327
D. M. BLACK
The Educators 328
From the Privy Council 329
Prayer 331
ALAN BOLD
June 1967 at Buchenwald 332
10. New Voices
SEAMUS HEANEY
Death of a Naturalist 339
The Barn 340
DEREK MAHON
My Wicked Uncle 342
An Unborn Child 343
STEWART PARKER
Health 346
Paddy Dies 347
ADRIAN HENRI
Tonight at Noon 348
The Entry of Christ into Liverpool 349
HENRY GRAHAM
Cat Poem 353
Two Gardens 354
ROBERT MCGOUGH
Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death 355
From “summer with monika”: 39 356
BRIAN PATTEN
Little Johnny’s Confession 357
Into My Mirror Has Walked 358
It is Always the Same Image 359
JEFF NUTTALL
Insomnia 360
“When it had all been told” 361
HARRY CUEST
Two Poems for O-Bon 363
TOM RAWORTH
You Were Wearing Blue 366
I Mean 367
Inner Space 368
LEE HARWOOD
When the Geography Was Fixed 369
The Final Painting 371
PAUL EVANS
Ist-4th Imaginary Love Poems 372
SPIKE HAWKINS
Three Pig Poems 375
BARRY MACSWEENEY
On the Burning Down of the Salvation Army Men’s Palace, Dogs Bank,
Newcastle 376
Appendix 379
Index of Poets 401
Index of Poem Titles 403
Index of First Lines 407
INDEX OF POETS
Alvarez, A., 171
Amis, Kingsley, 140
Barker, George, 94
Beer, Patricia, 123
Bell, Martin, 184
Berry, Francis, 151
Betjeman, John, 69
Black, D.M., 328
Blackburn, Thomas, 97
Bold, Alan, 332
Brownjohn, Alan, 263
Bunitng, Basil, 57
Burrows, Miles, 292
Causley, Charles, 118
Cole, Barry, 290
Connor, Tony, 267
Crichton Smith, Iain, 325
Dale, Peter, 280
Davie, Donald, 133
Durrell, Lawrence, 90
Enright, D.J., 138
Evans, Paul, 372
Fisher, Roy, 236
Fuller, John, 275
Fuller, Roy, 110
Garioch, Robert, 309
Gascoyne, David, 81
Gershon, Karen, 242
Graham, Henry, 353
Graham, W.S., 103
Graves, Robert, 46
Grieve, C. M.(Hugh MacDiarmid), 40
Guest, Harry, 363
Gunn, Thom, 143
Hamburger, Michael, 217
Hamilton Finlay, Ian, 322
Harwood, Lee, 369
Hawkins, Spike, 375
Heaney, Seamus, 339
Heath-Stubbs, John, 100
Henri, Adrian, 348
Hill, Geoffrey, 240
Hobsbaum, Philip, 181
Hollo, Anselm, 254
Hughes, Ted, 155
Jennings, Elizabeth, 136
Jones, Brian, 283
Jones, David, 49
Larkin, Philip, 127
Levi, Peter. S.J., 251
Logue, Christopher, 295
Lucie-Smith, Edward, 208
MacBeth, George, 198
MacCaig, Norman, 311
MacDiarmid, Hugh (C.M. Grieve), 40
McGough, Roger, 355
MacKay Brown, George, 314
MacNeice, Louis, 73
MacSweeney, Barry, 376
Mahon, Derek, 342
Mead, Matthew, 230
Middleton, Christopher, 221
Mitchell, Adrian, 303
Moraes, Dom, 277
Morgan, Edwin, 317
Muir, Edwin, 37
Nuttall, Jeff, 360
Parker, Stewart, 346
Patten, Brian, 357
Plath, Sylvia, 163
Porter, Peter, 188
Raworth, Tom, 366
Redgrove, Peter, 193
Silkin, Jon, 174
Smith, Stevie, 114
Spencer, Bernard, 108
Stallworthy, Jon, 270
Tarn, Nathaniel, 248
Thomas, Dylan, 78
Thomas, D.M., 286
Thomas, R.S., 120
Thwaite, Anthony, 259
Tomlinson, Charles, 225
Tonks, Rosemary, 245
Turnbull, Gael, 233
Watkins, Vernon, 87
Wevill, David, 211
INDEX OF POEM TITLES
A, a, a, Domine Deus, 49
After the Crash, 76
Almond Tree, The, 270
Annihilation of Nothing, The, 143
Back, 172
Bagpipe Music, 44
Bamboo Nightingale, The, 201
Barn, The, 340
Bitter Lemons, 92
Blackberrying, 163
Bluebell, A, 176
From Book XXI of Homer’s Iliad, 295
Bruise, The, 209
Butterflies in the Desert, 261
Cabal of Cat and Mouse, 222
Can I Fly Too?, 182
Caring for Animals, 174
Cat Poem, 353
Charm Against the Toothache, 101
Child Half-Asleep, A, 267
Climbing a Pebble, 221
Combat, The, 37
Considering he Snail, 144
Cook’s Lesson, The, 275
Counting the Beats, 46
Country Clergy, The, 121
Craxton, 277
Daddy,168
Daisy, A, 176
Darelion, 175
Days, 131Death in the Pergola Tea-Rooms, 188
Death of a Naturalist, 399
Departing Island, The, 326
Devonshire Street W.I, 71
Domestic World in Winter, The, 290
Dream of Hanging, A, 124
Educators, The, 328
Elegiac Improvisation on the Death of Paul Eluard, 81
Emily Writes Such a Good Letter, 116
En Route, 97
Enormous Comics, The, 184
Entry of Christ into Liverpool, The 349
Evans, 122
Face in the Mirror, The, 48
Farewell, 327
Fetching Cows, 312
Fifth Bedtime Story, 161
Final Painting, The, 371
Finis, 123
First Ode for a Very Young Lady, 254
For a Journey, 266
Fox, The, 227
From the Domain of Arnheim, 317
From the Privy Council, 329
George Fox, From His Journals, 234
Given Grace, A, 228
Glasgow 1960, 45
Gog, 156
Going, 131
Great Nights Returning, 88
Great Poet Comes Here in Winter, The, 191
Green River, 134
Green Waters, 324
Groundhog, 212
Habits, The, 76
Half-Scissors, The, 194
Hawk, The, 316
Health, 346
Homage to Jean Follain, 233
Hospital in Winter, The, 236
House in the Acorn, The, 193
Housekeeping, 133
Hunt, The, 50
Husband to Wife: Party-Going, 283
Hvalsey, 151
I Mean, 367
I Was Not There, 242
Identities II, 230
Ikey on the People of Helya, 314
I’m Neutral, 309
Imaginary Love-Poems I-4, 372
In the Fall, 40
In the Jewish Cemetery, 243
In Memoriam, 138
In Piam Memoriam, 240
In Princes Street Gairdens, 310
Indoor Games Near Newbury, 69
Inner Space, 368
Interior I, 237
Interruption to a Journey, 313
Insomnia, 360
Into My Mirror Has Walked, 358
It Is Always the Same Image, 359
Jackdaws, The, 220
June, 1967 at Buchenwald, 332
Lady Lazarus, 164
Last of the Chiefs, 248
Last War, The, 140
Last Watch of Empire, The, 100
Lenau’s Dream, 223
Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death, 355
Letter to a Friend, 185
Letters of Synesius: VI, 261
Little Johnny’s Confession, 357
Looking at a Drawing, 208
Lost, 171
Madame de Merteuil on “The Loss of an Eye”, 190
Malcolm Mooney’s Land, 103
Man With a Field, A, 87
Markings, 249
Meredithian Sonnets: II, IX, XIII, 112
Minipoet, 292
Missionary, 286
Mixen, The, 121
Monologue Spoken by the Pet Canary of Pope Pius XII, 251
Moon Disposes, The, 196
Mourning and Melancholia, 172
Mr Bleaney, 127
Mr Cooper, 259
My Father Sleeps, 211
My Friend Maloney, 118
My Sad Captains, 145
My Wicked Uncle, 342
New York in August, 135
Night Garden of the Asylum, 136
Night Rain, 210
Night-Time: Starting to Write, 108
Nostalgia – Now Threepence Off, 303
Not Drinking Water, 280
Not Waving But Drowning, 114
Nude in a Fountain, 311
N. W. 5 & N. 6, 72
Ocarina, 182
Office Party, 263
Old Woman, 325
On the Burning Down of the Salvation Army Men’s Palace, Dogs Bank, Newcastle, 376
On a Friend’s Escape from Drowning off the Norfolk Coast, 94
One Flesh, 137
Opening the Cage, 319
Orkney Lyrics, 322
Over Sir John’s Hill, 78
Ovid in the Third Reich, 241
Owl, 198
Paddy Dies, 347
Pibroch, 159
Poem Out of Character, 110
Point of Logic, A, 142
Pomander, 320
Portrait of Theodora, A, 92
Prayer, 331
Properties of Snow, 109
Razor Shell, The, 89
Reported Missing, 291
Roman Poem III, 95
Runner, 284
Sarajevo, 91
Secret Sharer, A, 181
Shell, The, 200
Silence, 209
Snow Fences, The, 226
Sofas, Fogs and Cinemas, The, 245
Souvenirs, 141
Space, The, 265
Spoils, The, 57
Stones for Gardens, 323
Straw, The, 47
From “summer with monika”, 356
Sunday Outing, 284
Taxis, The, 75
Tenuous and Precarious, 115
Theology, 160
Three Pig Poems, 375
Thrush, 281
“To speak about the soul”, 252
To the (Supposed) Patron, 241
Tonight at Noon, 348
Touch, 146
To Whom It May Concern, 305
Tramontana at Lerici, 225
Translator to Translated, 231
Travelling, 217
Truisms, The, 75
Twelve Secret Poems: III, VI, 268
Two Gardens, 354
Two Poems for O-Bon, 363
Unborn Child, An, 343
Vadstena, 153
Welsh Hill Country, The, 120
“When it had all been told”, 361
When the Geography Was Fixed, 369
Whitsun Weddings, The, 128
Winter homecoming, 213
Wiper, The, 73
Wodwo, 155
You were Wearing Blue, 366
Young Women with the Hair of Witches and No Modesty, 195
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
A dark bell leadens the hour, 236
A harsh entry I had of it, Grasud, 286
A soprano sings. The poem, 353
A tender mouth a sceptical shy mouth, 81
Ah, I thought just as he opened the door, 193
All day that thrush, 281
All the way to the hospital, 270
All these Americans here writing about America, 367
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart, 339
An owl’s call scrapes the stillness, 136
And so that all these ages, these years, 317
… and the hundreds and twenties, 50
At the tip of my gun the groundhog sits, 212
Barnacled, in tattered pomp, go down, 184
Bosnia, November. And the mountain roads, 91
Came up that cold sea at Cromer like a running grave, 94
Can you give me a precise description?, 291
City morning, dandelionseeds blowing from wasteground, 349
Clarity, once, 331
Clean the altars, 363
Clip-clop go water-drops and bridles ring, 311
Dear Russ, you’re dead and dust. I didn’t know, 185
Delicacy was never enormously, 329
Doun by the baundstaund, by the ice-cream barrie, 310
Dull headaches on dark afternoons, 268
Evans? Yes, many a time, 122
Experimenting, experimenting, 237
Frau Antonia is a cabbage, 191
From thirty years back my grandmother with us boys, 133
Gone, I thought, had not heard them for years, 220
Great nights returning, midnight’s constellations, 88
Great suns, the streetlamps in the pinhead rain, 112
Green silk, or a shot silk, blue, 134
Green waters, 324
Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glaring, 48
Half-seen/smiles unmet like mist, 364
He has a way, the cat, who sits, 222
He rang me up, 124
His face was blue, on his fingers, 172
His father gave him a box of truisms, 75
Home after years, tonight, 280
House Field, Top Field, Oak Field, Third Field, 266
How beautiful, how beautiful, the mill, 323
How clever they are, the Japanese, how clever!, 138
Humming water holds the high stars, 194
I am the long lean razor shell, 89
I ask sometimes why these small animals, 174
I didn’t want to go there, I didn’t, I was driven, 151
“I don’t care what you do” clouds, 374
I have already come to the verge of, 343
I have always loved water, and praised it, 195
I have done it again, 164
I have lived it, and lived it, 245
I have to say poetry and is that nothing and am I saying it, 319
I love my work and my children. God, 241
I recall her by a freckle of gold, 90
I rise like a wooden bird from China. I sing, 201
I said, Ah! What shall I write? , 49
I see them working in old rectories, 121
I speak from ignorance, 248
I think you must have written them on postcards…, 233
I was run over by the truth one day, 305
I woke to a shout: “I am Alpha and Omega”, 156
If I close my eyes I can see a man with a load of hay, 87
In among the silver birches winding ways of tarmac wander, 69
In an island of bitter lemons, 92
In an octagonal tower, five miles from the sea, 368
In the first taxi he was alone tra-la, 75
In their/limousines the, 328
Into my mirror has walked, 358
Is my favourite, Who flies, 198
Is this God’s joke? My father screamed, 346
It is always the same image, 359
It was my first funeral, 342
It was not meant for human eyes, 37
It’s strange, I thought, though half new stretches, 97
Last nicht in Scotland Street I met a man, 309
Let me die a youngman’s death, 355
Let me play to you tunes without measure or end, 44
Let the only consistency, 40
Look unoriginal, 176
Love is a finding-out, 142
Lying apart now, each in a separate bed, 137
Mabel was married last week, 116
Man’s life so little worth, 57
Monika the teathings are taking over! 356
Most of them in the first tryings, 176
Mountains, lakes. I have been here before, 217
My friend Maloney, eighteen, 118
My shoe has caught a pig, 375
My sleep falters and the good dreams, 171
My writing to forget, 249
No letters, What’s to become of an, 190
No, the serpent did not, 160
Nobody heard him, the dead man, 114
Nobody in the land, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, 163
“Nothing remained: Nothing, the wanton name, 143
Now he is being shot. The last page, 123
Oh and you seized the pierced stone in your hand, 182
On Sunday the hawk fell on Bigging, 316
Once upon a time there was a person, 161
One by one they appear in, 145
Over Sir John’s hill, 78
Over the mountains a plane bumbles in, 108
Paddy dies: you never knew him, 347
Peace, the wild valley streaked with torrents, 47
Peedie Alice Mary is, 322
Peedie Mary, 323
Photographs are dispensable, 141
Pig sit still in the strainer, 375
Pomander, 320
Prodigal of loves and barbecues, 241
Rapidly moving from the end, 110
Red cliffs arise. And up them service lifts, 72
Returning to Glasgow after long exile, 45
River, plain, 231
Rognvald who stalks round Corse with his stick, 314
Scares me mad, that dream, 223
Shall I do it, get up?, 360
Shamming accuracy, 254
Silence: one would willingly, 209
Since the shell came and took you in its arms, 200
-slim, inexpensive, easy to discard, 292
Slugs nestle where the stem, 175
Snakes are hissing behind the misted glass, 188
Snow on pine gorges can turn blue like Persian, 109
So the dog still yelps at the door, 284
Steadily stepping first, I let the world, 284
Stealthily parting the small-hours silence, 267
Strange to see it – how as we lean over, 326
Sunlight daubs my eye, 277
“Tell me of the house where you were born, 181
Tenuous and Precarious, 115
That Whitsun, I was late getting away, 128
The airfield stretches its cantilever wings, 213
The black one, last as usual, swings her head, 312
The boat swims full of air, 322
The dead Jews lie, 243
The distant hills are seen from the windows, 369
The explosions are nearer this evening, 366
The first country to die was normal in the evening, 140
The ghost of your body, 209
The Hare we had run over, 313
The heavy mahogany door with its wrought-iron screen, 71
The line sets forth and, 208
The morning they set out from home, 242
The mountainous sand-dunes with their gulls, 196
The night I came back from the hospital, scarcely, 172
The peedie sun is not so tall, 322
The pig fell over the upturned motor car, 375
The rain falls in strings beads, 210
The sandpainting destroyed by sunset, 373
The sea cries with its meaningless voice, 159
The sea, I think is lazy, 322
The snail pushes through a green, 144
The town fell into your hands wasn’t that, 373
The ultimate dream. Arms, eagles, broken banners, 100
The water’s breast, 323
The white cloud passed over the land, 371
Then Achilles,/ Leaving the tall enemy…, 295
Then why see it? This “flat and ample, 265
There came, for lack of sleep, 135
There is a black bird with eyes, 354
There is a war going on, 269
There is an evening coming in, 131
There was this empty birdcage in the garden, 95
They are fencing the upland against, 226
They stood smoking damp and salvaged, 376
This autumn I felt the cold in my bones when, 261
This is the way in. the words, 332
This morning. 357
“This was Mr Bleaney’s room. He stayed, 127
Threshed corn lay piled like grit of ivory, 340
Through purblind night the wiper, 73
Thrown together like leaves, but in a land, 261
Today, should you let fall a glass it would, 225
Today, Tuesday, I decided to move on, 103
Tonight at noon, 348
To speak about the soul, 252
Too far for you to see, 120
Turn where the stairs bend, 283
Two cups, 228
Two feet above the ground, I cross, 290
Two nights in Manchester: nothing much to do, 259
Uccello cello cello, 251
Venerable Mother Toothache, 101
We were gone from each other, 327
We were throwing out small-talk, 263
What am I? Nosing here, turning leaves over, 155
What are days for?, 131
What did it mean (I ask myself) to climb a pebble, 221
When he came to he knew, 76
When I saw the fox, it was kneeling, 227
When it had all been told, 361
When the king at last could not manage an erection, 275
When they put him in rompers the habits, 76
Where are they now, the heroes of furry-paged books…, 303
Who brought from the snow-wrecked, 211
Who had openings within, 234
Will you remember me Tatania, 230
Yes, I forgot the mixen, 121
Yes, I remember the name, 153
You are a witch, 182
You are already, 146
You do not do, you do not do, 168
You, love, and I, 46
Your hair a nest of colours a tree, 372
Your thorned back, 325
